South Korea’s president has been rocked by scandal. Accusations of influence-peddling tied to her relationship with a long-time friend and confidante, Choi Soon-sil, caused outrage among South Koreans. Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets in Seoul and elsewhere...

Despite months of anti-American rhetoric and threats from Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to undermine the alliance, cooperation between the United States and the Philippines remains surprisingly strong. The defense relationship has borne the brunt of the fallout, which...

Despite months of anti-American rhetoric and threats from Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to undermine the alliance, cooperation between the United States and the Philippines remains surprisingly strong. The defense relationship has borne the brunt of the fallout, which...

Well, the national security apparatus of the United States is huge. It is just mammoth. When I was chairman, the 17 intelligence agencies’ unclassified budget was about $75 billion a year. That’s just the intelligence collection posture of the United States.

The tsunami of populism, nationalism, and antiestablishment sentiment, exemplified by the Brexit referendum and U.S. presidential election, may break again in France’s two-round presidential election in April–May 2017. On December 1, Socialist president François...

No one predicted that the first pandemic of this century would come from Mexico, but it did. No one would have predicted MERS in the Middle East, or that West Africa would have the world’s first Ebola epidemic, or that we would have had SARS in the way we did. And we...